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Stonekeeper's Movie Guessing Game - I recommend this movie #1740 [Throne of Blood (1957) Winner: LauraGrace]


I have a movie in mind and you have to guess which one it is. For each movie you guess, I will give a hint that connects your guess with the movie I have in mind.

For each guess, a connection is posted. Example of connections: Actor, length, genre, aspect ratio, language, country, year, director, actor, writer in common, rating, number of votes, nominations. It can even be something like: both movies involve Cabbage Patch Kids. Also, you can use Metascore color or rating, Rotten Tomatoes score, any award wins or nominations in common, same number of words in the title, plot keywords. Note: "Plot" in the IMDB advanced search links to "Plot Summary" on the film's page. "Keyword" in the advanced search links to "Plot Keyword" on the film's page.

Helpful search engine: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ Click on Feature Film and TV Movie. Then modify for the hints as they are posted.

- The winner can either start a new game or say "pass". In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another one.
- After 12 hints and 15 incorrect guesses the point goes to the OP and he/she gets to start another one.
- Movie must have at least 3500 IMDB votes. Otherwise, add a bonus hint. No documentaries.
- Maximum 2 guesses per player per hint.
- Can't edit a guess once posted. Delete ONLY
- Post one Hint at a time


Hint 1: MASH (1970) - Setting is in Asia.
Hint 2: Ugetsu (1953) - Black and white.
Hint 3: Yojimbo (1961) - Japanese language.
Hint 4: Onibaba (1964) - Set in the samurai era.
Hint 5: Ikiru (1952) - Release date in the 1950s.
Hint 6: Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Drama genre.
Hint 7: Seven Samurai (1954) - IMDb rating in the 8s.
Hint 8: The Life of Oharu (1952) - Based on previously written material.
Hint 9: A Story from Chikamatsu (1954) - Runtime shorter than 2 hours.

LauraGrace wins with Throne of Blood (1957), a great Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth by Akira Kurosawa.

Scoreboard:
FredBurroughs: 335
hownos: 256
LauraGrace: 193
nyctc7: 144
Allaby: 135
MonStar: 112
Kawada_Kira: 110
StoneKeeper: 103
lud: 100 (EMERITUS)
tcrum: 98
dmac8: 44
SkyCoyote5150: 25
Vastuntitled: 25
KvlhokVjequs: 16
twinA: 12
bellington83: 4
SomeCodhopper: 4
zeesha: 4
TalkinPikchorBox: 3
SamGerard: 3
Stratego: 3
KasparHauser: 2
MinaVladimir: 1
godewey: 1
ShogunofYonkers: 1
Damosuzuki: 1
sslssg: 1
Kowalski: 1
TexasJack: 1

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Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

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Hint added.

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That one's already been guessed.

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Seven Samurai (1954)

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Hint added.

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The Life of Oharu (1952)

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Hint added.

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A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)

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Hint added.

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Throne of Blood

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That's the one!

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That's just a tad sneaky for not throwing us a Kurosawa hint for Yojimbo. :-/

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I thought about it, actually not in the case of Yojimbo (too early to narrow it down that much) but when Laura guessed Seven Samurai I strongly considered identifying it as a Kurosawa, but in the end I felt like that would make it too easy so I didn't go with it.

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Or Toshiro Mifune.

A breach of etiquette, but not a rule.

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Yep, I thought about mentioning him too.

I know I wouldn't be breaking any rules; I just have my own style for playing this game lol.

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I take issue with this justification, but I understand its reasoning. I'm going to save this post if ever I decide to pull something similar in the future so that I can use it to validate what others might protest.

Let's roll the clock back a couple weeks for a thought experiment. Can you imagine the waterfall of shit that would have flowed had I hinted Richard Donner's Superman as "English language"?

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Well, I think the context is a bit different. Everybody seems to assume English-language movies are the default in this game, as a rule, so saying "English" as a hint seems to be perceived as lazy/obvious (in the past, people have often said that saying "USA/English" is some super easy fallback to use when someone's guess has nothing in common with the host's movie). At least with most players. In the case of myself, since everybody knows I use a lot of non-English-language movies in my rounds and that only about half of the movies I recommend are in English, if I say a movie I'm recommending is in English, I don't generally catch any flak for it because that genuinely does narrow it down quite a bit. And hinting that a movie is Japanese also significantly narrows it down. I had previously hinted that the movie was set in Asia, which could have been anywhere from Turkey to Japan. By saying it was in Japanese, that rules out India, China, Iran, Korea, etc, and creates a much smaller pool of movies to search through.

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Believe me, I understand this methodology. Don't be surprised if it gets taken to new lengths in the future. :-)

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I myself, would have indeed given you that waterfall.
I have long suspected that you were dumbing it down for us, that you have the ability to play at much more difficult level.

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I definitely have more than a few ways to make this game even more difficult for players. We'll see what the reactions are when that day comes. :-D

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Loathing. The reaction will be loathing.
And you know it.
I am smiling at the prospect .

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I like to think of it as boos morphing into applause.

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Can't argue with the pick. As far as MacBeth adaptations go, it's ichiban!

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where are you? i'm in the mood.

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I need someone else to host tonight.

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I don't want to host but I'll play.

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15 minutes.....

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Ready

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